Woot! My blog sketch from ages past made the front page of Bath Abbey's newsletter, The Chorister. A guy named Tim Penn contacted me awhile back about using it, but I'd almost forgotten. Fabulous! My favourite bit reads:

Illicit nostril activity in quire has a long history; the anonymous author of the sixth-century onastic role book Regula Magistri tackled such unsavoury minutiae as 'the disposal of filth extracted from the nose' during psalm-singing.

Morris the Mankiest Monster would approve of such activity, oh yes.

Exciting news, I've been invited to be part of the Bath Festival of Children's Literature this autumn; don't know the dates yet, but I'll keep you posted! I hope we have lots of hearty nose-pickers in the audience.

Great picture Sarah and of course it could be your number 1 Vern and Lettuce fan, Alex, who is a probationer chorister at Peterborough Cathedral. He wears red at the moment. If you listeb to BBC Radio 3 on Sunday you will hear Peterborough Cathedral choir in full flow. Patrick